Pain Management welcomes London cult favourite DJ ojo, who arrives on the label with a hazy three tracker of trademark nether zone system music. On his most dubbed out full length to date, ojo span’s the full emotive spectrum of dub sonics with a range of both the eerie and more tender expansions of low end atmospherics, the resulting 12” equally suited for the club and the journey home alike.

‘Tongue Tied’ opens the record, a lysergic offering from the darker edges of dub music. A slippery fugue-state hit of narco-ambience built around a crooning, intelligible vocal refrain and chest shot sub weight. A real nightfall system pusher built to simmer in the early hours. It kicks off the EP on an amorphous, hypnotic note that sustains throughout.‘Oil Dub’ sinks deeper into the fog, melodic kinesis and expansive delays upholding an underworld of feedbacked percussion and tongue in cheek sub motion; a seven minute sound bath of ambiguous dub ASMR.

The B-side balances out the darker strains found on its counterpart with an overtly tender digidub closer. Clocking in at almost ten minutes long ‘Cloud Suck’ is a nebulous bliss of perpetually ascending late-summer warmth. The kind of liminal dream-state embrace that you wish would never end. True to the name, it evokes tender, dusk and dawn hued moments, a quiet ride-home flash of introspection on the way to or from some pursuit of meaning. Pain Management essential right here.

Limited run of 200 hand-stamped 12” records available now.

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DJ Ojo - Tongue Tied [PM004]

To round off 2024 in style, we’re revisiting a set from Bristol-based Swedish DJ @k_means, playing the very last set of Unsound 2023. The eclectic selector takes us for a wild ride through the weirder corners of club music – going from off-kilter footwork to dub and bashment dancehall.

Unsound Podcast 106: k means

warped rules 					of reality
 		    a kaleidoscope 			of 		sound 
					   rhythms 					scatter 
							like shards of light 
					 through a broken lens
	

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Compiled from over 250 tracks created between 2017 and 2024, Juxtapose is Windu’s first ever release — a freeform, shapeshifting snapshot of sound. It is released by adventurous electronic music label topo2 on March 14, 2025. The record is pressed on 180 grams of ICCS-certified bio-vinyl, housed in a heavy full-colour sleeve, and comes with a download-code to the full release and five digital-only tracks. Mastering is done by Isabel Schröer at Scape Mastering and artwork by courtesy of Kees de Klein. Mixing is done by our dear friend Pascal Pinkert and Poetry by equally dear friend Eelco Couvreur.

Release date: 14 March 2025
Formats: limited bio-vinyl LP (300 copies), digital
Inquiries: topo2world@gmail.com
Physical Distribution: mark@rushhour.nl
Digital distribution: contact@nomorewords.net

https://soundcloud.com/winduwindu
www.topo2.nl

Windu - Juxtapose [topo2-002]

Nick Malkin hosts Post-Geography, featuring ambient and atmospheric selections, live from the NTS studio in L.A.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/post-geography/episodes/post-geography-21st-february-2025

Post-Geography w/ Conna Haraway 210225

The opening track from Conna Haraway's forthcoming album, "Spatial Fix". Out March 21 on vinyl.

https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/spatial-fix

@connaharaway
Mastered by @ikezwanikken

Conna Haraway - Freon

Artist from our latest compilation, Takeo.K - also behind one of this year's most stunning Eps - delivers a one-hour mix of ambient textures, intricate instrumentals, and trip hop influences. 

Created while he were navigating a pivotal decision, this mix is a thoughtful offering for anyone who might find themselves in a similar moment.

Perfect for all your car trips

@Takeo.K

Second End w/ Takeo.K (21/02/25)

TRACKS IN THE MUD – Retreat Radio's first-ever compilation of original music drops on April 20, 2025! Available as a double CD, on a wrench-shaped USB, digitally, and across multiple streaming platforms. Listen to the first 4 tracks and pre-order: retreatradio.bandcamp.com/album/tracks-in-the-mud

Tracklist:
SAATANS KVINNA - I have a lot to say (intro)
HOS - Jorn
Prins Emanuel & Rivet - Umarel
Klofink - Triple Tundric Vision
Goaty - Drear
Thomas Bush - Loneliness Remembers
DJ Sandylion - Look Out!
Moonilena - Solarna
Sofftronic - Metallic Dub
Oklo Gabon - The Theoretical
Jonte Prippz - Nomore
Digge Shim - Dawn 2 Dusk
East Moon - Soloflight (Ecover Version)
Miranda Magdalena - Polly Pocket (Rivet Scrub)
CYSP - Farever
tala drum corps - conc
Aircode - Came Back
Oblinof - KK2 Corp
Rumina - Rezillik
Ceqi - Fog Juice
tZimtZum - Re-Koil
towLie - taLk to me
Five o'clock Traffic - double refusal
2Lanes - Tadpole Prime

The online radio station Retreat Radio has acted as a unifying force on the underground scene in Malmö for close to a decade and now offers its first compilation of original music from its vast community.

A community grown exponentially like a virus, with Retreat Radio as the source of infection, comprised of artists in various stages of despair revelling in hazy ambient, angular industrial rhythms and post-dub influences. Now bringing you 24 tracks of frog-induced head music made for a sad generation that wanted to be club kids but had no club to go to.

Many - if not all - of the names behind this mammoth of a compilation are Retreat residents with current or past monthly shows on the programme. Many of whom have walked the stark lit street at the outskirts of town at night to climb a spiral staircase above a carwash to play their shows.

Loosely centered around the interpretation of dub as a genre, the compilation hand-picks a curation of tracks which nonetheless point to a coherent vision: that of dub as a vital cornerstone in the development of new music reflecting on an urban post-capitalist environment.

releases April 20, 2025

Mastered by: Martin Blomberg & Jonatan Bergsman
Artwork by: Oda Haugerud
Design by: FETIDGRUPPE©
Words by: Simon Eliasson

TRACKS IN THE MUD

premiere: 2Lanes - Tadpole Prime

co:clear is overjoyed to welcome @jonnnah to its fold, with a new long-form 12” edition. Featuring Pavel Milyakov (aka @buttechno) right off the bat, ‘Me, With You’ is an album that grips its listener tight with gleaming electronica, off-kilter trip-hop and swampy bass.

With past offerings to Soleil Rouge and Second End Records – a label which he heads – there's a thread that laces all of Jonnnah’s work. Although never sticking to a definable bracket, the Lyon-dweller effortlessly floats through various tempers, peddling impeccable electronics as equally suited to colossal sound systems, as they are to solitary early morning walks in headphones. It's ambient for the foreground that surprises with flurries of two-step and amen breaks – present-day sonics that doff their cap to what’s come before.

Out on limited edition 12” vinyl & digital, 30th May 2025. Limited to 200 copies.

Written & Produced by Pierre Paumier
Featuring Pavel Milyakov
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Cut by Pitchcraft Mastering
Artwork by Conna Haraway
Distributed by Rubadub

Me, With You

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COCLEAR003: Jonnnah – Me, With You (previews)

Living Room n°83 ~ DJ In A Dream ( @anthonyabbadessa )

q. pls introduce yourself:
a. Hi, my name is Tony, I'm a psychotherapist in NYC who loves making mixes . I also love to make clothing and sometimes my own music. I'm a massive fan of the Living Room series and have been a listener since day one. Very excited to share my mix with you all.

q. is there a story behind the mix? 
a. Every song in this one is very special to me. The mix took a few different shapes until I settled on this sequence. There's a lot of voice, a lot of different languages. There are many stories.

q. what’s the best way to enjoy your mix? 
a. This would be best enjoyed on headphones, walking outside. It's best for around 11 am walk, but perhaps the night would be nice as well, haven't tried that yet.

q. describe a favourite object in your living room... 
a. My favorite object right now in my living room is my 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, I read it every day and it has become a sort of religion to me.

q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)? 
a. I'm currently writing a dark fantasy / philosophy novel inspired by Borges and Medieval Christian Mysticism. It's taken most of my time so I'm pretty much only doing that, not working on any music projects at the moment.

Living Room n°83 ~ DJ In A Dream

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#trapbeat #darktrapbeat #beat #instrumental

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topo2 is an adventurous electronic music label run by Bert de Rooij. Its sole purpose is to be enthusiastic about the electronic music ecosystem, not limited to topo2 releases.

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